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quarto

See also: Quarto

English

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Etymology

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From Latin quartus (“fourth”).

Noun

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quarto (countable and uncountable, plural quartos)

  1. (paper) A size of paper (7.5"-10" x 10"-12.5" or 190-254 x 254-312 mm). Formed by folding and cutting one of several standard sizes of paper (15"-20" x 20"-25" or 381-508 x 508-635 mm) twice to form 4 leaves (eight sides).
    1. (UK) Quarto writing paper (10 inches x 8 inches)
  2. (printing) A book size, corresponding to the paper size.
    • 1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 40:
      Beneath an old ebony table were two long carved oak chests. I lifted the lid of one, and at the top was a once-white surplice covered with dust, and beneath was a mass of tracts — Commonwealth Quartos, unbound — a prey to worms and decay.

Synonyms

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  • (paper size): 4to, 4º
  • (book size): Q
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Translations

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Anagrams

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French

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Pronunciation

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Adverb

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quarto

  1. fourthly

Further reading

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Italian

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Italian numbers (edit)
40
 ←  3 4 5  → 
    Cardinal: quattro
    Ordinal: quarto
    Ordinal abbreviation: 4º
    Adverbial: quattro volte
    Multiplier: quadruplo
    Collective: tutti e quattro
    Fractional: quarto
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Etymology

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From Latin quartus.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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quarto (feminine quarta, masculine plural quarti, feminine plural quarte)

  1. (ordinal number) fourth

Noun

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quarto m (plural quarti)

  1. quarter (part of a town)
  2. (fractional number) quarter, fourth
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Latin

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Numeral

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quārtō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of quārtus

References

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  • “quarto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “quarto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • quarto in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • quarto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Neapolitan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish cuarto.

Noun

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quarto m (plural quarte)

  1. apartment

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References

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  • Riccio, Giovanna (2005) Ispanismi nel dialetto napoletano, Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 167[1]

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • (Rural Central Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkwaɹ.tʷ/
  • Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -aɾtu, (Brazil) -aʁtu
  • Hyphenation: quar‧to

Etymology 1

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Portuguese numbers (edit)
40
 ←  3 4 5  → 
    Cardinal: quatro
    Ordinal: quarto
    Ordinal abbreviation: 4.º, 4º
    Multiplier: quádruplo
    Fractional: quarto
    Group: quarteto
Portuguese Wikipedia article on 4
 
quarto (bedroom)

From Old Galician-Portuguese quarto, from Latin quārtus.

Adjective

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quarto (feminine quarta, masculine plural quartos, feminine plural quartas)

  2. (ordinal number) fourth

Noun

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quarto m (plural quartos)

  2. (fractional number) quarter; fourth (one of four parts of a whole)
  4. room (subdivision within a building)
  6. (specifically) bedroom (room used to sleep in and keep personal objects)
  8. (historical) quarter (unit of volume for liquids equivalent to a quarter of a tun)
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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quarto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of quartar

Spanish

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Adjective

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quarto (feminine quarta, masculine plural quartos, feminine plural quartas)

  1. Archaic form of cuarto.

Noun

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quarto m (plural quartos)

  1. Archaic form of cuarto.
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